From: Jerome Shidel <jer...@shidel.net>


> On Feb 8, 2017, at 4:57 PM, David McMackins <cont...@mcmackins.org> wrote:
>
> Call me a noob, but is there a preferred way to upgrade from FreeDOS 1.1
> to 1.2 while keeping configurations intact? I haven't personally loaded
> the new installer yet, but I wanted to check before I tried, since my
> FreeDOS installation is on real hardware.

As with any OS update, it is always a good idea for you to manually backup your
system and important files first.

That being said...

Make sure you have lots of free drive space.

The installer will make a copy of your config files and old DOS directory (if
it will conflict with the new install). It will then, clean out the old DOS
directory, only keeping non-conflicting package data files. Then it will do the
install.

Since the installer makes a backup of all that stuff, You can copy back any
files you may need.




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